Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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